AC9AMU8C02 Years 7 to 8 The Arts

Content descriptor compose using the elements of music and compositional devices to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning, and notate, document and/or record the music

Elaborations

• • Elaboration writing songs or instrumental music to communicate ideas or opinions about themes or issues, such as their perspectives on local issues relating to sustainable ways of living or relationships such as friendship
• • Elaboration combining and manipulating the elements of music in ways that are characteristic of selected styles, creating and notating, documenting and/or recording a composition, using available digital tools
• • Elaboration using patterns such as harmonic, rhythmic or melodic patterns as the basis for improvisation or composition; for example, creating a composition entirely from loops or recording a series of loops (ostinati/repeating patterns) and then composing/improvising additional melodic lines
• • Elaboration composing music for different purposes, such as repertoire for an ensemble to perform or music for a theatrical, site-specific or media work; for example, a fanfare or other composition that will grab the audience’s attention at the start of an event, ritual or ceremony
• • Elaboration using software to notate, document and/or record compositions in formats that are appropriate to a genre, style or instrument, such as chord charts or percussion notation
• • Elaboration arranging a familiar music piece into a different music style by manipulating the elements of music to convey meaning, and documenting the arrangement in a form that is appropriate, considering the style and the preferences of the musicians who might be performing the arrangement; for example, arranging an instrumental work for choral performance
• • Elaboration developing an arrangement or re-imagining of an existing melody/tune by improvising, using given material such as a melody, riff or chord progression